My Country-A Poem of America

Russell Davenport adapts his own My Country: A Poem of America into a patriotic radio meditation on the nation's people, work, homes, history and democratic inheritance. Multiple voices celebrate farmers, builders, families and servicemen while also treating freedom as an obligation passed from earlier generations through those dying in the current war. The poem closes by arguing that American liberty cannot remain private or isolated: freedom must be shared so that the democratic promise defended at home can extend to people beyond America's borders.

This Words at War broadcast aired on June 5, 1945. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Anne Seymour, Martin Blain, Mason Adams, Marguerite Morrisey, and Berry Kroeger. Other credited names include Anton M. Leader as director and Russell Davenport as radio adaptor.

The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.

This version dramatizes My Country-A Poem of America. Russell Davenport is credited as author and Russell Davenport adapted it for radio.